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Exclusive page-frame ownership

Posted Sep 15, 2016 11:50 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Exclusive page-frame ownership by spender
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> I guess I'll avoid offering any free review or hints here in the future and leave it up to the upstream "experts".

In the immortal words of _The Critic_ -- "And nothing of value was lost."

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Posted Sep 15, 2016 12:08 UTC (Thu) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link] (1 responses)

You've summed up the entirety of your comments well. Have you ever contributed anything of technical value?

-Brad

Exclusive page-frame ownership

Posted Sep 15, 2016 13:40 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> You've summed up the entirety of your comments well.

Perhaps, but I'm not claiming that my comments here are of any inherent value, nor am I threatening to deprive LWN readers the awesomeness of my "free review or hints".

> Have you ever contributed anything of technical value?

Why yes, I have:

Two chunks of Linux kernel code bear my name -- One wifi driver that I heavily cleaned up [ie rewrote large chunks of], mainlined and still maintain, and another that I originally wrote but someone else mainlined (after some rewriting).

(So yes, I have first-hand knowledge of just how much work mainlining something can be. Incidentally, the latter bears quite a few similarities to this situation -- Only I had the maturity to not complain about how those folks doing the work I was unwilling to do were somehow doing it all wrong. I even tossed some patches their way to help out)

I'm also a major contributor to Gutenprint, having written drivers for several dozen photo printers.

Beyond that, there's a long tail of mostly-minor contributions to various F/OSS projects. I try to give back whenever possible, and my track record shows that I play well with others.

Any more questions?